From the point of view of a psychology/art student.

I’m Missi: an artist, gerontologist, crazy cat lady, LotR and bluegrass obsessed hipster, muslimah, cook, gardener, and adventurer. I like to drink too much coffee and green tea and cuddle with my cat, and I talk about old people more than anyone wants to hear. I like fashion and own too many scarves to count (that’s a lie–I have 43). You can find me by trees and nursing homes, yelling out statistical research about care quality, or sleeping at odd hours with a book still open beside me.

Yes. Despite what you may think, you are not a heartless machine, too often I see you put other people first, and you always apologise if you accidentally interrupt someone. And then you let them go first.

I have to agree with Noah on this one. Out of all the people I know, you’re one of the warmest and selfless that I’ve ever met. True that sometimes you interrupt others while talking, but how the hell doesn’t? =)

Hi, I’m an older person, retired from Truman some time ago. I just want to let you know that I subscribe to Google’s news alerts for anything about “Kirksville” or “Truman State University.” Quite often our blog shows up in the alerts email message.

I don’t know how much you want to share with the world, but thought you might like to know that Google alerts folks to your blog.

Hope you had a nice break and the rest of the year will fly by quite uneventfully. As to midwinter depression, probably everybody in the bleak Midwest has SAD, seasonal affective disorder . . . the winter blues. ALL of us! Things will turn the corner soon for all of us as the sun peeks out more and more.